Shakespeare iz hard
May. 22nd, 2011 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI wrote some more not-Shakespeare for Textual Transformations. I've written a sort of sonnet for Tybalt and Lady Capulet, and a bit of a ramble for the Nurse, and now had an idea for Romeo's mother that I'll have to go look up her speaking style for though there's not much to see (extrapolating from two couplets - fanfic has much practice here). The more I try this the more I wish I'd gone all vampires vs werewolves or something. It's not transformed very much this way, it's not especially fun or very me, it's just filling in what some women might say if they were saying what I wanted them to.
My idea was that Juliet has three options if she survives... well, my first idea was there were two but then I thought another one. If she marries Paris and does the arranged marriage to older rich person thing she's probably doing like her mother did, and lots of versions have Lady C having a Thing with Tybalt, so I made a sonnet where Tybalt is meant to be all whyyyyyyy did you marry the old dude and not me and Lady C is all my dad said it would be good and now I have a big house and my daughter's getting married so he must be right... only obviously by the end she has a lot of dead people and some money, so probably would rethink the matter. If Juliet runs away to exile with her bloke she loses all her money, connections, and probably class. So how would they live? Or what if her mother actually succeeds in killing him? Juliet is either all alone with no money being very thoroughly kicked out or she's got a husband with the primary skills of Petrarchan poetry and getting in fights, and still no money. So I wrote Nurse as if her bloke got banished and she went off with him and now here she is with her own child dead and it's turned out a bit of a bad idea really. But if Juliet goes and marries Romeo and he gets forgiven or inherits all the money and sets up elsewhere and doesn't get killed - if best case, really - he's still an impulsive brat with the primary skills of derivative poetry and killing people. Is he really husband material? Get married, watch him make a lot of enemies, start a whole feud, raise your kids to be just like him and start all over again next generation.
It's all rather depressing really. Clearly needs more vampire.
now my brain is fuzzy and my estimate of needing 4 days sleep to make up for last week cannot be met cause tomorrow is last day of college. Monday classes got cancelled by bank holidays a lot so I guess they're a bit later for their last day. After that I have two weeks to make some Shakespeare... oh I really hope I've got the right dates on that... well if I have to do a presentation tomorrow I have stuff to present, it's just bad, but then I do the rest of the essay on why it's bad, so that should work out. *sigh*
... I don't much like success, yet I fear failure. That's kind of wildly stupid, isn't it?
My idea was that Juliet has three options if she survives... well, my first idea was there were two but then I thought another one. If she marries Paris and does the arranged marriage to older rich person thing she's probably doing like her mother did, and lots of versions have Lady C having a Thing with Tybalt, so I made a sonnet where Tybalt is meant to be all whyyyyyyy did you marry the old dude and not me and Lady C is all my dad said it would be good and now I have a big house and my daughter's getting married so he must be right... only obviously by the end she has a lot of dead people and some money, so probably would rethink the matter. If Juliet runs away to exile with her bloke she loses all her money, connections, and probably class. So how would they live? Or what if her mother actually succeeds in killing him? Juliet is either all alone with no money being very thoroughly kicked out or she's got a husband with the primary skills of Petrarchan poetry and getting in fights, and still no money. So I wrote Nurse as if her bloke got banished and she went off with him and now here she is with her own child dead and it's turned out a bit of a bad idea really. But if Juliet goes and marries Romeo and he gets forgiven or inherits all the money and sets up elsewhere and doesn't get killed - if best case, really - he's still an impulsive brat with the primary skills of derivative poetry and killing people. Is he really husband material? Get married, watch him make a lot of enemies, start a whole feud, raise your kids to be just like him and start all over again next generation.
It's all rather depressing really. Clearly needs more vampire.
now my brain is fuzzy and my estimate of needing 4 days sleep to make up for last week cannot be met cause tomorrow is last day of college. Monday classes got cancelled by bank holidays a lot so I guess they're a bit later for their last day. After that I have two weeks to make some Shakespeare... oh I really hope I've got the right dates on that... well if I have to do a presentation tomorrow I have stuff to present, it's just bad, but then I do the rest of the essay on why it's bad, so that should work out. *sigh*
... I don't much like success, yet I fear failure. That's kind of wildly stupid, isn't it?
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Date: 2011-05-23 05:01 am (UTC)~
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Date: 2011-05-24 01:58 am (UTC)Angel & Buffy had the 'starcrossed' thing going on and a slightly complicated series of fake deaths.
And according to an article we studied in class R&J is the inspiration for the Twilight series of sparklepires.
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Date: 2011-05-24 10:18 pm (UTC)Which must have Shakespeare rolling over in his grave! I was mainly thinking something along the lines of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (which I haven't read, since I'm not that into zombies). Preferably an IdiotBall-free version, although that would probably distort the thing completely out of recognition.
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Date: 2011-05-22 08:12 pm (UTC)More vampire makes everything better. :)
Anne, coughcoughcough